About Rene
Rene Jourdan, LCPC, uses a practical, person-centered approach to help people manage hard moments and rebuild hope. She focuses on what matters now and works with clear steps people can use between sessions. Rene weaves together multiple approaches to match each person's needs.
She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment techniques to clarify values, and attachment-based perspectives to repair relationship patterns. She also uses dialectical behavior skills for emotion regulation and client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in each person's experience.
Background and approach
Her background includes more than a decade of clinical work in Idaho. Rene spent over five years helping provide crisis services on the North Idaho Crisis Line and has led programs for family and peer support. She currently manages a substance use disorder program and runs both group and individual addiction treatment for people with co-occurring conditions.
Rene has extensive experience facilitating therapeutic groups. Examples include coping skills groups for adults, basic mental health processing groups, and the Matrix Model of addiction. These group formats are paired with individual sessions when people need focused, one-on-one work.
People come for help with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, addictions, and relationship problems. She also addresses parenting strain, caregiving stress, chronic health challenges, attention issues, mood concerns, and life transitions. Rene aims to offer straightforward skills and steady support so people can move toward the life they want.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Rene commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify patterns of thinking that keep problems in place and then practice concrete skills to change those patterns and behaviors.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different techniques to find what fits. Sessions may combine strategies from ACT, CBT, attachment-based ideas, or dialectical behavior skills depending on what helps you make progress.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow real-time conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging let people check in or do shorter sessions without being on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English